[Haskell-cafe] Re: [16/16] SBM: Discussion and Conclusion

[Simon Marlow]

Peter Firefly Brodersen Lund wrote:

> Using top together with huge input files convinced me that -sstderr was
> untrustworthy so I developed the pause-at-end preloading hack.  Paranoia paid
> off big time there.

In what way did you find -sstderr untrustworthy?  Perhaps it is because the 
"memory in use" figure only counts memory that the RTS knows about, and 
doesn't include malloc()'d memory.  If it's anything else, I need to know 
about it.

>  o can the core/stg code be made easier to read?

By all means - submit tickets with specific suggestions, or better still 
send patches.

Cheers,
	Simon